Player of the Week - No. 9

Player of the Week - No. 9

November 01, 2011

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Concordia (Calif.) outside hitter Fei Gao has been named the NAIA Volleyball National Player of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Gao was selected based on her performance from Oct. 24 – 30 and was chosen out of a pool of conference player of the week selections among 23 conference/independent/unaffiliated groupings.

Gao, a first-year member of the Eagles, spent two seasons at NJCAA North Idaho College before becoming a key component at Concordia this season. She helped power the No. 2 Eagles to four wins over the past week, including two monumental triumphs. She posted six kills and 15 digs in a 25-15, 25-19, 25-16 Golden State Athletic Conference title-clinching victory over Fresno Pacific (Calif.) on Oct. 29. Later that day, Gao tallied 15 kills and 29 digs in a 25-20, 16-25, 25-19, 20-25, 15-10 win over No. 1 Texas at Brownsville in the NAIA Match of the Week. She totaled 35 kills, 66 digs and eight block assists in 14 sets played last week.

The 6-foot-1 junior from Qingdao, China, ranks second on her team with 252 digs, third in kills with 207 and third in blocks per set with 0.6. Gao follows Concordia opposite hitter Brooke Marino as the second-straight Eagle to win the award.

The final Player of the Week announcement of the 2011 season will be on Nov. 8.